Banu Gökarıksel
Banu Gökarıksel is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research engages with questions about neoliberal globalization, consumption spaces, and identity-formation through contemporary everyday Islamic and secular practices and ideologies in Turkey. She has been doing ethnographic fieldwork research in Istanbul since 1996. Her primary research questions have examined competing and contested secular and Islamic visions and practices of contingent modernity in mall spaces, cultural politics of dress, and consumer capitalism. Her publications have appeared in the journals Area, Global Networks, Social and Cultural Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and in the edited book Women, Religion and Space. She has also co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies on Muslim women, consumer capitalism, and the Islamic culture industry. During the 2009-10 academic year, she collaborated with Sarah Shields (History, University of North Carolina) as the Principal Investigator of an Andrew Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Diversity and conformity in Muslim societies: historical coexistence, contemporary struggles” at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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